Tag: Refugee

Only a fellow refugee from the rural heartland can understand the culture of control and compliance required. Non-conformity is not an option. Growing up in rural Ohio, I experienced a way of life that was vastly different from urban or coastal environments. The landscapes were dotted with ...

Germany serves as a haven for gay people all around the world, and refugees hope to claim it as their new home — most wanting to settle in Berlin. By Richelle Boyd Asylum seeker Asha holding the Iranian flag at a protest against the Iranian regime, July, 2021 in Cologne, Germany. ...

Let’s start at the beginning: I was born in 2000’s Ukraine, nine years after the country’s longed-for independence. My family just made it out alive of the 90s — a tumultuous period of hyper-accelerated capitalism and banditism. Entire lives were crashed or evela...

However, what all of these sources disagree on is what the crisis is. Is it the situation in the home country which influenced migrants and refugees to move, like war or famine? Is it the sheer numbers of migrants and refugees traveling through countries not their own, sometimes referred to in co...